Kielpa is a town and locality on

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. It is midway between

Rudall Rudall is a town and locality in South Australia. At the , Rudall had a population of 90. It is named for the cadastral Hundred of Rudall, which was named after politician Samuel Rudall. It is a grain and sheep service centre on the Eyre Pen ...

and

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on the

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. Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley. Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916, however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Kielpa had 63 people living within the locality's boundaries.

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